Course handbook

Description

This course provides an overview of historiography for postgraduate students engaging with writing and researching history at an advanced level. It considers how we ask questions about the past and why the past is foundational to our understanding of the contemporary world. It explores both the theory and practice of history, including the use of written and non-written sources, and interrogates a range of ancient, contemporary and critical methodological approaches to the interpretation of the past.

Availability

Not currently offered.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Develop advanced skills in historiography and critical approaches to the past.

2. Acquire knowledge of major historians and school of history from ancient to modern times.

4. Consider philosophical, methodological and practical issues which inform good historical research and writing.

Content

Topics covered will include material from the following list:

Creating archives

Fathers of History - Herodotus and Thucydides

Using national and international archives

Empiricists and diplomatic history

Gender and history

Marxist theory and history

Annales and annalists

Oral history and memory

Post-structuralism and post-modernism

History wars - history and the public sphere

Assessment items

Written Assignment: Assignment 1

Written Assignment: Assignment 2

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